Orchestra Wives

Orchestra Wives (1942)

It's Hep! It's Hot! It's Hilarious!

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.

Date of release
1942-09-04
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama, Music, Romance
Director
Archie Mayo

Casting

Interesting facts

Orchestra Wives is a 1942 American musical film by 20th Century Fox directed by Archie Mayo and starring Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, and Glenn Miller. Lynn Bari, Carole Landis, and Cesar Romero appear in support.

Production

The working title of this film was 'Orchestra Wife'.

Production dates were 6–17 April; 22 April – early June 1942.

An early draft of the film's screenplay was rejected by the PCA because it implied that some of the characters had committed adultery. After PCA officials met with producer William LeBaron in mid-June 1942, the story was approved on the condition that there would be no adultery explicitly depicted.

'Orchestra Wives' was the second and final film made by famed band leader Glenn Miller, who disbanded his orchestra in September 1942 in order to enter the military.

A July 8, 1942, Variety news item reported that the song "At Last," composed by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren, had originally been recorded by Miller and his orchestra for the 1941 Twentieth Century-Fox film Sun Valley Serenade.

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